## TELEGRAM TO V. P. ANTONOV-SARATOVSKII

[12 July 1918]

Saratov
Antonov

I shall transmit your telegram to Trotsky.

I have already telegraphed once to I v a n o v², who is traveling to B a k u³, and I repeat once more that if he is needed in Saratov, he must give particular assistance to the Saratov comrades, especially if the situation is critical, if our forces are surrounded.

Let Ivanov give me a reply.

Lenin

¹ V. P. Antonov-Saratovskii — chairman of the Saratov Provincial Executive Committee.

² V. G. Ivanov (Caucasian) — in 1917-1918, member of the Tiflis Party Committee, Executive Committee of the Caucasian Army Regional Soviet, Presidium of the Eastern Section of the Central Fleet, commander of a military flying detachment of the Moscow Military District. Until 1921 he was on the fronts of the civil war.

³ V. I. Lenin telegraphed V. G. Ivanov on 7 July 1918 with permission to depart for Baku on condition that the situation in Volsk was favorable. By that time a counter-revolutionary mutiny of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries had been suppressed there.

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## NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN

[18 July 1918]

To C h i c h e r i n

The question you posed (in writing today), in my view, is resolved simply and unconditionally: y e s (a political agreement à la Ioffe must be concluded without surrendering Estonia, Livonia, and Georgia, but r e g i s t e r i n g their occupation by Germany).

Have you sent an encoded dispatch to Ioffe regarding Murmansk?¹

¹ The note is connected with questions raised by new demands and certain complications in relations with the German government and the occupation of Murmansk by Entente forces. On 18 July 1918, V. I. Lenin heard a report from G. V. Chicherin on the first question.

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## TELEGRAM TO G. N. KAMINSKII

[22 July 1918]

Tula

To Comrade Chairman of the Tula Provincial Executive Committee
Kaminskii

Copy to Panyushkin

Panyushkin must immediately explain to me his actions and attempts to free Agapov.

Let Panyushkin go to Moscow.

Agapov must remain under arrest. The Provincial Executive Committee must urgently submit to me a copy of the report on his case.

Both Kaminskii and Panyushkin must inform me immediately of the execution of this order.

If Panyushkin proves guilty of disorganization, he will be strictly punished.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin

¹ Lenin's telegram was prompted by a report from G. N. Kaminskii about unlawful actions by the commissar of the detachment of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and extraordinary military commissar of Tula Province V. L. Panyushkin, who, using the forces of his detachment, attempted to free S. K. Agapov, commander of the garrison, who had been arrested by the Commissar of Justice and the Provincial Military Commissar for misappropriation of state funds (see D. M. Os'kin. Notes to Military Commissars, 1931, pp. 82-90).

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## DIRECTIVE TO N. P. GORBUNOV

[25 July 1918]

To G o r b u n o v

Do not forget to invite her tomorrow².

¹ The directive was written on a telegram from A. A. Ioffe to V. I. Lenin reporting the arrival in Moscow of Gerta Gordon (Walcher), a veteran of the German workers' movement, member since 1915 of the group "International" (later the "Spartacus League"). Ioffe reported that Gordon had been recommended by Clara Zetkin and requested that Lenin receive her and render all possible assistance.

² On 26 July 1918, V. I. Lenin received Gordon, and on the same day wrote a letter to C. Zetkin in response to the letter from Clara Zetkin to Lenin of 27 June 1918 brought by Gordon (see V. I. Lenin. Complete Collected Works, vol. 50, pp. 127-128).

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## NOTE TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE KREMLIN
P. D. MALKOV

25.VII.1918

Comrade Malkov!

Give Comrade Gorbunov the opportunity to inspect the Great Nikolaevsky Palace and other Kremlin premises¹.

Lenin

¹ The inspection of Kremlin premises was connected with the placement of government institutions following the move from Petrograd. V. I. Lenin addressed the Kremlin commandant about this more than once in the first months of 1918 after 12 March.

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## TELEGRAM TO V. P. NOGIN

[1 August 1918]

Saratov

To N o g i n

More than two workers are being sent today. Strain all efforts to put the work in order. Regarding literature I shall issue instructions.

Lenin

¹ Lenin's telegram is a reply to V. P. Nogin's telegram of 1 August 1918 from Saratov reporting the grave situation in the city and province in connection with the Czechoslovak mutiny, kulak uprisings, poor organizational and propaganda work among the population, especially the peasantry, the necessity to send one or two workers from the Center for Party work who know newspaper affairs, and to dispatch *Pravda*, *Izvestiya*, *Bednost'*, and newspapers in Tatar and other local languages.

² V. P. Nogin — deputy People's Commissar of Labor, member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.